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# Today’s Links: Subway Ceiling Tumbles Down at Borough Hall Stop, Concerned Citizens Suspect Fowl Play Over Seven Missing Swans  & More
- URL: https://bklyner.com/todays-links-subway-ceiling-tumbles-down-at-borough-hall-stop-concerned-citizens-suspect-fowl-play-over-seven-missing-swans-more/
- Published: 2018-06-21T21:00:17.000Z
- Updated: 2018-06-21T18:01:49.000Z
- Author: Paul Stremple
- Tags: Central Brooklyn, Eastern Brooklyn, News, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, northern brooklyn, Southern Brooklyn, Western Brooklyn, brooklyn news, down-low, today's links, #wp

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A very good boy on a skateboard in Coney Island last weekend (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)

Earlier this week, [Crown Height’s tenants rallied to protest the sale of their building](https://patch.com/new-york/prospectheights/slumlords-tenants-fear-pending-sale-means-gentrification?ref=bklyner.com) from the current slumlord owner to a major investment company amid fear of gentrification.

Yesterday, Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuels called an emergency town hall meeting to [address NYCHA violations in Brownsville](https://www.bkreader.com/2018/06/emergency-town-hall-called-brownsville-address-nycha-housing-violations/?ref=bklyner.com). This is just days after a [report on the neighborhood’s parks and open space](/brownsville-parks-report/) found them in desperate need.

Another park in desperate need: the long-closed BAM Park at Fulton and Lafayette, which is dangerous to walk in due to crumbling foundations over the subway stop, [was accidentally opened to the public](https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/bam-park-fort-greene-spike-lee-shes-gotta-have-it-netflix/?ref=bklyner.com) during the filming of Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” earlier this month.

But the big story in crumbling subway stations is [Borough Hall, where the ceiling fell yesterday](https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/20/borough-hall-ceiling-collapse-shows-how-badly-subway-is-deteriorating/?ref=bklyner.com), tumbling down in a shower of bricks and masonry, causing major delays and an emergency repair effort. True New Yorkers, some found, were unperturbed:

> this photo is the most New York City thing i’ve ever seen: a person sitting on a subway bench and looking at their phone/reading their book while a literal ceiling is COLLAPSED in front of them [pic.twitter.com/QlYWx5dNFv](https://t.co/QlYWx5dNFv?ref=bklyner.com)
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> — Krystie Lee Yandoli (@KrystieLYandoli) [June 20, 2018](https://twitter.com/KrystieLYandoli/status/1009549298802003970?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com)

Some folks are actually making an effort with the upkeep of old stonework: a group of [masonry apprentices in Green-Wood cemetery](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/nyregion/new-york-today-graveyard-masonry-program.html?ref=bklyner.com) are learning to take care of sometimes centuries-old gravestones.

In Prospect Park, birders are [worried something nefarious happened to the seven mute swans that seem to be missing](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/ny-brooklyn-missing-swans-20180618-story.html?ref=bklyner.com) from their pond. The Parks Department wonders if the bird might’ve, you know, flown away? Their [Southern Brooklyn brethren have narrowly escaped death before](/save-the-swans-mute-swans-death-sentence-reversed-sheepshead-bay/), so who knows—it may be fowl play.

Thinking about keeping cool this summer? Check out a [great history and amazing pictures of New York’s public pool craze](https://www.6sqft.com/the-1936-summer-of-pools-when-robert-moses-and-the-wpa-cooled-off-nyc/?ref=bklyner.com) in the ’30s! Of course, [a new pool in Squibb Park](https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/41/25/dtg-squibb-bridge-new-bridge-2018-06-22-bk.html?ref=bklyner.com) may close the once-springy Squibb Bridge to Brooklyn Bridge Park—and now locals want a new span.

Another bridge is getting ready for construction work: [the 86th Street overpass will gain some much-needed repairs,](http://brooklynreporter.com/story/construction-begins-86th-street-overpass/?ref=bklyner.com) but may require temporary closure of the onramps.

Marine and Third in Bay Ridge may also see some traffic calming, pedestrian safety improvements: [curb extensions and shorter crosswalks](http://brooklynreporter.com/story/dot-proposes-safety-measures-marine-third/?ref=bklyner.com), namely.

And while some were heartened by [Borough President Adam’s recommendations for 80 Flatbush](/borough-president-releases-recommendations-for-80-flatbush/)—which includes lopping off nearly 300 feet of height—other have found that his plan may be [encouraging a shorter but stouter development](https://thebridgebk.com/what-the-borough-president-is-really-saying-about-80-flatbush/?ref=bklyner.com) nearly the same size.

Better get to the [Rockwell Place Community Garden Summer Solstice this year](/rockwell-place-garden-celebrates-solstice-as-looming-towers-threaten/), just in case…